User guides
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A user guide in italian for v.8.19.1 was written by Alessia Macagno and Paola Molina (Dipartimento Interateneo di Scienze, Progetto e Politiche del Territorio from the University of Torino)
BORIS forum of users
A chat platform for BORIS users is available on Gitter (Github or Gitlab)
Citing litterature
- Citations on Scopus (2127 citations at 2025-04-24)
- Google Scholar
Development
Bug report and feature request
If you want to report a bug or request a feature, see how to report a bug / request a feature.
Credits
BORIS is developed entirely with open source software.
BORIS is developped in Python 3.12 using PySide6 for the GUI.
The mpv media player library and the python-mpv interface are used to play media files.
The Matplotlib python 2D plotting library is used for plotting events and generating the spectrogram.
The Pandas data analysis tool.
The FFmpeg multimedia framework is used to extract media files parameters, in frame-by-frame mode and in spectrogram visualization.
The Tablib Python module is used to export data in TSV, CSV, ODS, XLSX, HTML and XLS formats.
The portion Python module is used in the Advanced event filtering function.
The ExifRead Python module used to access pictures Exif data.
The pyreadr Python module is used to save data for R (optional).
The Graphviz graph visualization software is used (optional) to generate transitions graph.
The BORIS web site is made using Material for Mkdocs static site generator and supported by GitHub.